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  • Examining the Relationships Between Wildfire and Communities to Inform Wildfire Prevention and Equitable Policy Implementation

    Creator:
    Reilley, Caitlyn
    Abstract:
    Despite the importance of fire for maintaining the health of many ecosystems, the social and economic costs of wildfires have risen sharply in recent years. Across the western United States, historical land and fire management practices combined with climate change and modern human development pressures, are contributing to increased wildfire...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Downing, W. M., Dunn, C. J., Thompson, M. P., Caggiano, M. D., & Short, K. C. (2022). Human ignitions on

  • Lichen Biomonitoring from Valley to Alpine in Central and Southern California

    Creator:
    Kovasi, Adrienne I.
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    In the mountains of central and southern California, high elevation wilderness areas lack epiphytic lichens that can be used to inform us about atmospheric deposition in multiple ways. Epiphytic lichens are capable of accumulating elements proportionally to the local atmospheric concentration, establishing them as commonly used biomonitor of key elements....
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    Masters Thesis

  • This Earth Emanating Enchantment: What Wonder and Joy Can Teach Us Within Traditional Western Environmentalism

    Creator:
    Ohotnicky, Colette E.
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    G.K. Chesterton once stated, “I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairytales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts….The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in the fairy book,...
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    Jones, Professor Jennifer Richter, and Dr. Christopher Dunn, for their encouragement and enthusiasm

  • Relationship of Soil Type and Burn Severity to Post-Fire Vegetation Response

    Creator:
    Maclennan, Audrey
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    Public lands in the Pacific Northwest are managed for multiple uses including timber production, recreation and aesthetic value, maintaining wildlife habitat, conserving native species, and carbon storage. Wildfires impact large areas encompassing broad environmental conditions. Interactions among underlying environmental gradients and alteration of overstory competition by fire of varying severities...
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    importance of seeing the best in others and honoring my core values. I am thankful for Chris Dunn for

  • Reburn Severity and Vegetation Recovery in Southwestern Oregon, USA

    Creator:
    Weber, Rebecca N.
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    The Klamath-Siskiyou Ecoregion of southwest Oregon and northern California is greatly departed from its historic, mixed-severity fire regime. This departure manifests in larger wildfires, greater proportions of high burn severity within wildfire perimeters, and decreased diversity of post-fire vegetation successional stages and trajectories across the landscape compared to historical norms....
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    Masters Thesis
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    guidance this project would be an inchoate mess. Thank you also to my committee: to Chris Dunn, for the

  • A Microeconomic Analysis of Wildfire Suppression Programs in the Western United States

    Creator:
    Rossi, David J.
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    This dissertation studies the microeconomics of forest fire suppression programs. It starts with an inquiry into the causes of increasing shares of public land management budgets devoted to wildland fire suppression in lieu of hazardous fuel reduction or other pre-fire risk mitigation programs. The first two chapters consider competing economic...
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    Dissertation
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    academic committee: Dr. David Kling, Dr. Yong Chen, Dr. Christian Langpap, and Dr. Christopher Dunn. The

  • Analysis of Fire Severity in Southwestern Oregon Using Aerial LiDAR

    Creator:
    Wolken, Karin M.
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    Acquiring, maintaining, disseminating, and utilizing quality data is key to adequate understanding and management of ecosystems. Modern remote sensing technology provides us an increasingly cost effective, unique opportunity for acquiring highly detailed information across every square meter of a landscape. The plethora of data available to scientists allows for use...
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    Masters Thesis
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    differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (RdNBR) approximates basal area mortality (Dunn & Bailey, 2016; Reilly et

  • Bridging Ways of Knowing to Model the Dynamics of Fire as an Ecocultural Process on Frequent Fire Landscapes of the Pacific Northwest

    Creator:
    Greenler, Skye M.
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    Wildfire impacts have intensified in many ecosystems across the western United States due to the combined impact of fire exclusion, climate change, and land management practices. However, on many of these landscapes, fire is a fundamental ecological process that has shaped vegetation structural and compositional diversity, ecosystem function, landscape pattern,...
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    my time at OSU, Chris Dunn has provided invaluable guidance and mentorship and I truly cannot